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A 384-unit apartment community already taking shape along State Road 56 now has new paperwork to match the concrete going up on site. Aventon Companies has closed on the 19.44-acre parcel at the southwest corner of State Road 56 and Meadow Pointe Boulevard, paying $16.25 million to finalize ownership of the land beneath its Aventon Wesley Chapel development.

Pasco County voters settled one competitive County Commission race on Tuesday, but left most of the school board's future undecided — two of three contested seats are now headed to a November runoff.

Incumbent Rep. Randy Maggard defeated Pultorak in the Republican primary for Florida House District 54, taking 68.11% of the vote to Pultorak's 31.89%, according to unofficial results from the Pasco County Supervisor of Elections. Because a write-in candidate is the only name waiting in the general election, Maggard's primary win effectively locks up another term representing east Pasco.

For years, a Wesley Chapel family whose loved one suffered a severe stroke braced for the same grim reality: a transfer out of Pasco County, and a drive to a hospital farther from home while the person they loved lay in a bed they couldn't sit beside. AdventHealth Wesley Chapel is closing that gap.

A small childcare center on County Line Road spent four days this month turning its classrooms into a relief operation, after a deadly earthquake struck western Colombia earlier this month.

Bumper-to-bumper traffic stretched for miles through the Hawthorne Village neighborhood on the first days of school this week, after a car-line route change at Pinecrest Academy sent drop-off and pickup traffic straight into residential streets instead of out onto County Road 54.

At a public hearing in Dade City, commissioners considered an ordinance that would install automated speed enforcement cameras in school zones countywide. If adopted, drivers caught going more than 10 mph over the posted school-zone limit would receive a $100 ticket in the mail — not from an officer on the roadside, but from a camera reviewed later by a certified traffic enforcement official.

Michael Pultorak, a longtime Wesley Chapel resident and 26-year captain with Hillsborough County Fire Rescue, is challenging incumbent Rep. Randy Maggard in the Republican primary for Florida House District 54 on Aug. 18.

The Pasco County Planning Commission recommended approval of sweeping changes to the Two Rivers development on Wesley Chapel's eastern edge, despite pushback from residents worried about traffic, flooding and water.

Fire Station 2 officially opens with a grand opening celebration on Friday, Aug. 14. County officials say the new facility will cut emergency response times in the area roughly in half.

Pasco County Schools is growing its K-8 model this year, and Wesley Chapel families say the approach is paying off.

Download the app through the Apple App Store or Google Play Store by searching for the Pasco County Schools parent app. You will need your ParentVUE login credentials to access your child's information.

If you have ever wanted to eat gator tail sourced from Lacoochee, wash it down with a local craft beer, and sit surrounded by original signs from Pasco County businesses that have been around since before the subdivisions started, The Original Floridian Bar & Grill in Dade City is exactly that — and it just opened.

School starts Thursday. If your child rides the bus and you don't know their route or stop yet, Monday is the day to call. Pasco County Schools' Back-to-School Bus Hotline opens Monday, August 11 — three days before the first bell rings on August 13.

Classes resume Thursday, August 13, and several Wesley Chapel-area schools shifted start-time tiers this year. Before the first morning rush hits, here is every wesley chapel bell time for every Wesley Chapel campus so you can set those alarms correctly.

The State Road 52 corridor between I-75 and the San Antonio area is in the early stages of a buildout that will add approximately 9,500 more homes and millions of square feet of commercial space to the immediate area north of Wesley Chapel

Pasco County mosquito control officials are ramping up surveillance and treatment operations after West Nile virus was detected in sentinel chickens in the county.

Tampa Bay's second major airport is gearing up for its biggest transformation in decades, and if you haven't considered flying out of St. Pete-Clearwater International Airport (PIE) before, this might be the moment to start paying attention.

A major new apartment community is moving closer to construction after developers secured financing for a 384-unit luxury multifamily project in one of Wesley Chapel's fastest-growing corridors.

Pasco County Schools is eliminating passive screen time — those stretches where a computer is up and a student is just sitting behind it — and replacing it with more direct instruction, hands-on learning, and the kind of analog skills that research shows are quietly disappearing from classrooms across the country.